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answer: The Boys is a superhero show on Amazon. The basic premise is what if superheroes were celebrities and acted like the worst celebrities out there. The current season is about the strongest hero(Homelander a parody of Superman and Captain America) courting white nationalists as they will tolerate and support all the awful things he does and applaud him for them. It draws a lot of parallels to Trump and his conspiracy theorist/white nationalists base
It's worth noting the show has always been capital b Blatant that Homelander is a parody of patriotism getting into bed with racist Christian fascists. Among his very first public appearances in the show is him flying across a giant cross while in the pose of Jesus on the cross. Later, he gets literally seduced by a character named after a white power message board. The show has never been subtle about this. The only new thing is that some of the people it was parodying seem to have figured it out.
Answer: The show is a dark satire, and heavily influenced by the current political climate, and Trump in particular. The main antagonist of the show, a “Supe” (short for super) named Homelander has descended into authoritarianism. Each season of the show digs in a bit harder. In the first few sessions there was some folks on the Right who missed the whole satire aspect and considered Homelander the hero, not realizing he was the villain and they were the butt of the jokes.
Recently there was an interview with the show runner who highlighted a lot of these points in no unclear terms. He also noted that he was planning to lean in even more on the political similarities with the rhetoric from Homelander.
I have only recently started watching the show and I cannot, for the life of me, understand how people missed Homelander being a villain. It's in the first episode! He's basically "facsim will come to America wrapped in a flag" personified! How did anyone miss this????
Considering even the main show sub says the new season is crap, I'm presuming these redditors don't watch the show and parrot twitter talking points, makes sense considering how astroturfed /r/outoftheloop is.
The whole thread has zero criticism of the show writing is all THE FASCISTS AND MAGANAZIS TROLLS HATE IT!!!
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I would rather smash my own balls with a meat tenderizer than read about the intersection of capeshit and politics
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I started watching The Boys but was turned off by how little effort they had given this „satire“
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oh my God another show where the message is drumpf bad!!!! Revolutionary!
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Capeshit fans will watch absolutely anything, why bother trying
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You gotta admit, it's a good move to combine cape shit with orange man bad.
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I had to stop watching when they brought in a character who was a literal, card carrying Nazi to do a heckin racism by very graphically popping a man's skull. To really drive the point home she calls him a 'yellow bastard' while doing it. Between the revelry in the ultra violence and the 'pooping frickwaffle' level of dialog, the pearl clutching over their personification of evil potentially violating their shibboleths was just too embarrassing to watch
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They didn't even have the balls to make her say "chinx", they had to go with "yellow".
Both her and the asian foid could get it tho
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Can i vote for the party they imagine rightoids to be?
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If only
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Look at this guy
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!nooticers
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WHAT DID YOU TYPE? I AM SIGHT
DEAF FROM DAYMODE SCREENSHOTS
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BRIGHT
AHHHHHHHHH
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Doctor who jesus
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Even on the commentary scale the comic uses superheroes to represent the MIC, rampant consumerism, corporate control, and everything else wrong with America while the show makes the actual capes themselves alt right trump supporters. Basically to all the super smart media leftists in the comic the problem is the system the supes represent "its all bad product" while the show is narrowly about how the issue is just the boogeyman of the day and will age like milk. !nonchuds actual left wing media analysis
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The left wants to be both the respected establishment experts and the edgy anti-establishment radicals, so their fiction is schizophrenic.
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The show is also obsessed with outdoing itself on the grossness scale episode after episode which is just blatant pandering to the midwit demographic.
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Having Homelander being the most dangerous cape is an implicit entendre about how dangerous and powerful the systematic white supremasicim America is thrall to.
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Homelander is kinda a loser in the comics he basically has no imagination and struggles squaring his super human status with his boring human desires (money, s*x drugs) .
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Ennis is a hack, but having a normal dude square off with not-superman and having the guy with super senses know with utter certainty that there is 0 fear in that man's body is hard as frick. I don't think real superman ever did this
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Its based off an archetypal superman scene where superman floats outside lexs high rise office lex lets him and and just yanks his chain "oh wow thanks superman for taking down that rouge lex corp employee who stole our supersuit
we take security very seriously at lex corp so we cant thank enough for plugging that little leak" while superman seethes
!comicshitters
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The Boys is a leftist hot take on The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
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We will always be at war with rightoids though
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Trump is living rent free in the heads of capeshit writers and he hasnt been president in four years. Heck the show isnt even satirizing the bad shit trump did with covid, only the vague idea that white nationalists at any moment could rise up and kill people they just havent done
Like people are protesting the current president for doing a genocide and the show is thinking how best they can defeat drumpth by creating another cheeto hitler parody
“Dark satire” pfffft the show resets to status quo literally every time with its passe-in-the-2000s satire of DAE christian rightoids are dangerous!?
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A reminder that modern politics is r-slurred and there's no genocide in Gaza, but there should be.
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everyone in the ME has to go, BIPOC
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The Boys is a tv show made by people still living in 2004 who try to make fun of a different type of people still living in 2004.
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Oh, the show being produced by one of the largest corporations in human history is showing a parody of a corporatized world where they do nefarious things behind a veil of DEI talking points
Is there a term for when you're trying to make fun of someone but in effect revealing that you're an idiot?
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Dunking on Cape shit is starting to feel like punching down at this point. It feels dated now that marvel has imploded.
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Seth Rogen is a 'call-you-pissbaby'-tier reddit soy.
Also, lolBIPOCs, we know he's supposed to be the "bad" guy, we just don't care.
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The first seasons was great, then I stopped watching it. It's the only way to go with unexpected hit shows. They only ever get worse
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I'm approaching the new season as a sketch comedy show. I just skip all scenes that don't involve Homelander or the deep.
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They keep saying I'm not allowed to identify with this or that character
because he's meant to be the villain. But they obstinately refuse to include any egotistical, sadistic narcissists as intended heroes, so who am I meant to relate to?
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."Heh, you think
you've won.. ack... "
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Isn't marvel losing billions because no one is watching this shit, why are they still making it? are they trying for some sort of loss protection?
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Idk why big corporations don't wrangle in their shit lib writers anymore, the backlash to political
shows is getting more intense. Why alienate a large 
audience and lose money?
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They still genuinely believe they can shame/guilt people into consuming product, and that they just need to shame and guilt a little harder
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The show is now worse than the comic.
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It's a good show if you just acknowledge that it's set in an alternate universe with no connection to ours
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Rightoids acting like they knew it was making fun of them all along yet suddenly sneeding when informed of this fact. Really makes u think.
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that's what chuds get for watching capeshit
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